Healthy food?

tech_fan
Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:17:46 +0000

Platero, re #10 –

the way board works is that dinners are paid for in advance and you get about $400 of card money (i.e. money that’s put on your student ID and you swipe your card to spend) for lunches at various on-campus restaurants and food from the on-campus convenience store (c-store). Lunches are always great and there are lots of actually fresh fruits and veggies at Chandler in the morning and afternoon. The c-store also has lots of drinks and snacks and what seemed to me to be fresh fruits. So spending the $400 shouldn’t be a problem at all because there is plenty of good food to spend it on.

As for dinners, those are already paid for automatically (that’s where the rest of the $900 board fee goes), so you can eat what you want. If you wish to supplement this with food from local markets, you can do that, but it doesn’t involve foregoing dinner (or its cost). If you find fruits and veggies you like at the c-store (though they will be overpriced) you can buy those with your card money.

There are veggie burgers whenever there are burgers, and a vegetarian option whenever there are steaks, and anyone who wants to can eat them. Sometimes you’ll be asked in advance by your house headwaiter so they can bring the appropriate amount of each kind of food, but that’s as far as it goes. Nobody will check your vegetarian ID card.

Does that make sense? Ask if anything is still unclear.

Btw, I agree that it’s bad form to use someone’s first name online without permission. :)